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Skamaniac
10-20-2015, 05:53 PM
Well, before this summer I hadn't dug any silver coins, mostly because I spent the last two years trying to reconstruct locations of old logging mill and donkey sites. But this summer I got hooked on coinshooting after my first find. For some reason I found the dimes in reverse order though, starting with a seated Liberty and ending with a Rosie.

1887 Canadian dime, 1891 seated, 1900 Barber (same day, same yard) 1943 mercury, and yesterday I pulled a 1950 Rosie (along with a 1964 5 centavos Mexican coin). The three newer dimes are S mint.
OxShoeDrew
10-20-2015, 06:07 PM
"A Dime Good Summer" :lol: Best headline of the year! Nice haul....I forget, you use a minelab?
del
10-20-2015, 06:15 PM
wow , thats quite a variety in the Dime department !!:notworthy:
Full Metal Digger
10-20-2015, 06:38 PM
You're a dime fine detectorist!
Digger_O'Dell
10-20-2015, 07:35 PM
Good times are rollin'!! Congrats on the silvers, keep them coming into the light!
Skamaniac
10-20-2015, 07:37 PM
I forget, you use a minelab?

No, I'm running an AT Pro.
wisconsin digger
10-20-2015, 08:39 PM
Great finds. I have the same picture I could make. My seated looks like your Queen V and your Queen V looks like my Seated. Great finds WD
Cheap Thrills
10-20-2015, 10:47 PM
Congratulations , that's quite an accomplishment , that dime collection makes a nice picture .
Digger Don
10-21-2015, 06:01 AM
Dimennite Summer. Great bunch of coins you got there. Congrats
Skamaniac
10-21-2015, 09:55 AM
Dimennite Summer. :rofl:
Hiluxyota
10-21-2015, 08:52 PM
Dimeomite !!!!!!
Hiluxyota
10-21-2015, 09:00 PM
A Rosie away from a grand slam that day!!!
MangoAve
10-22-2015, 12:02 PM
I thought you did coinshooting but come up with relics. You always come up with relics no matter where you hunt (as long as you dig the iffy signals that sometimes turn out to be coins). Nice score on those dimes.
Lodge Scent
10-22-2015, 07:58 PM
Dime shame I didn't find all that silver. Ska, without sounding too much like an ass, what is a "donkey site" ?
Fire Fighter 43
10-22-2015, 08:03 PM
Very nice, congrats on the dime grand slam. Now it is time to repeat, good luck and happy hunting.
Skamaniac
10-23-2015, 10:13 PM
Dime shame I didn't find all that silver. Ska, without sounding too much like an ass, what is a "donkey site" ?

A donkey was a steam powered winch, usually mounted on skids for portability, used to pull logs to a wagon or railroad landing back in the day. They were used all over the Pacific Northwest and if you can find a site where one was in use there's hand tools, axe heads, saw blades, etc around. The donkey boilers and cable drums are almost never found though, because they were stripped away during WWII for metal drives and it makes it hard to pinpoint a site.

Here's more about them, and a few photos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_donkey